Horse hay-rake



(No Model.)

S. MELLINGER.

HORSE HAY RAKE. No. 322,948. Patented July 28, 1885' ATTONEYS.

WITNESSES:

[NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

SAMUEL MELLINGER,'0F MOUNT PLEASANT, PENNSYLVANIA.

HORSE HAY-RAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,948, dated July 28, 1885.

Application filed December 520, 1883.

T0 (1% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL IVIELLINGER,

of Mount Pleasant, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse Hay-Rakes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the. same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of a portion of my improved rake-head and axle. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate cor-- responding parts in both the figures.

My invention has relation to horse hayrakes; and it consists in the improved con-v struction and combination of parts of the rake-head, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawingsdhe letter A indicates the head, which is made of sheet metal of a suitable thickness, and formed open at the under side, being U-shaped in cross-section. The edges or flanges B of the head are bent together at the ends of the head, forming round tapering ends 0, upon (No model.)

which sleeves D are slipped, which sleeves serve as spindles for the wheels which turn upon them, while the sleeves at the same time serve to hold the flanges together. The teeth G are preferably of the construction shown in the drawings, formed'with bails H,and having their upper ends, I, passed through perforations F in the flanges of the head; and links K are hooked over the bails H, which rest on top of the rake-head,an d over the ends I, and

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL MELLINGER.

W'itnesses:

WM. H. SMITH, J. O. F. HAYS. 

